Keywords: risk, risk management, risk impact, crisis, crisis management
Abstract: The purpose for his paper is to highlight the importance of those business risk categories, which have outstanding crisis-genic potential. The reference to most common approaches to the problem of business safety and continuity is made, with a special emphasis on Risk Management strategy. Introduced concepts of "critical risk" and "critical impact" allowed making an efficient selection of critical risks from the generic variety of threats.
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Streszczenie w jezyku polskim.
Zusammenfassung in Deutsch.